KC in the Autumn years

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Postby Sweet » Mon 22 May 2006 7:47 pm

LMAO!! It could very well be!!

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Mon 22 May 2006 8:59 pm

:D
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KC in the autumn years

Postby Michele McAllister » Tue 23 May 2006 10:25 am

why not think positive.......by 2020 the treatment of, and scientific understanding of, this condition will have progressed by leaps and bounds.....

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Postby GarethB » Tue 23 May 2006 11:12 am

It is good to see we have an optomist posting.

To be honest the care of KC has come a long way in the past 20 years and as such tretments are exponential in growth it may well be possible do do away with lenses completly.
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Tue 23 May 2006 11:26 am

Michael

Good point well made!

I have a dream today
that one day all keratoconic people will live without lenses and see without surgery!

Now that is something to which it is worth while looking forward!

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Postby Drew Radcliffe » Tue 23 May 2006 11:35 am

That cures already about. I think my mother said it was something to do with Lucy in the Sky with diamonds or something or other or maybe thats why i see things......

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Tue 23 May 2006 11:38 am

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds! good song, famour pharmaceiutical but is it a valid therapy? Now there's a question.

:?:

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Postby Janet Manning » Wed 24 May 2006 4:52 pm

Andrew, I'll make it to 70 a year ahead of you, so I'll let you know what it's like!!! I plan to grow old 'disgracefully' like the old lady in the poem, who wears purple hats and bangs her stick along the fence for the hell of it. My ambition is to buy a new red Mini convertable to transport me and my zimmer frame in style. Will probably never be able to afford it, but you gotta have a dream!

I'm already working on the hats and shades for every occasion!

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Wed 24 May 2006 4:58 pm

That sound slike a worthy ambition for a Septegenarian.

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Postby rosemary johnson » Wed 24 May 2006 6:02 pm

Yes, I'd like to dream too...
Like....
LONG before I'm 70, we'll live in a world which has taken combatting disability discrimination seriously.
Where we'll be able to get about even when we can't see as well as we'd like; when 99% + of the internet is accessible with no or minimal vision rather than 90%+ inaccessible; where computers all have access built in as standard and will produce speech output, Braille, large print or easy-in-the-eye colour schemes without a headache to change the settings - and above all which don't depend on being used according to a vision-based paradigm.
Where people have more nous than to keep asking "Why don't you wear glasses?" or "Haaven't the hospital done anything about it yet?"
Where people don't wave their hands about as if demonstrating something to you visually however often you tell them you can't see what you're pointing at.
Where your brain power and personality are recognised for what they are irrespective of your eyesight, rather than being assumed to be defective just because your eyesight is.
And where people have better manners than to start taking photos of strangers without checking first if they mind - let alone not popping flashbulbs without a second thought.
And and and....
SOmeone stop me before we're here all night!
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